1. Set Focus
Frame the inquiry with these essential questions: In what ways does technology improve our lives? What factors should take priority when creating a military?
2. Read and Discuss
Have students read the debate and then answer the following questions:
- What is the issue being debated? How does it relate to current events? (The issue is whether women should be required to register for the draft. The issue is timely because the Supreme Court just declined to hear a case challenging the men-only registration law and suggested that Congress re-evaluate the law.)
- Evaluate why these two authors might be interested in and qualified to comment on this issue. (Rita Tabacco Mar is the director of the Women’s Rights Project at the ACLU. Elaine Donnelly is the head of an organization that analyzes military readiness.)